May 24th, 2007 · After nearly 25 years, the Canadian band continues to thrive, thanks in part to its live shows. Still, the group remains on the relative outskirts of the U.S. music scene, despite stardom at home. Hear an interview with The Tragically Hip, plus songs performed live in the studio.
Dec 22nd, 2005 · The New York Daily News reports that a body-snatching ring, operating illegally to sell tissue for use in transplants, managed to obtain and distribute the bones of famed British broadcaster Alistair Cook after his death in 2004. Bill Sherman of the Daily News fills Madeleine Brand in on a bizarre story.
Aug 23rd, 2005 · More than 12,000 people have paid $20 this week to see dead bodies. It's a new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Fla., "Bodies, the Exhibition." It consists mainly of preserved cadavers with exposed muscles, bones, organs and tendons.
Jun 15th, 2005 · Renovating houses is as familiar to Valda Crowder as resetting broken bones. She has traded in 13 years of emergency medicine for a life of wheeling and dealing in the real estate market.
Jun 12th, 2005 · A debate over human remains in the Pacific Northwest persists. Native Americans say studying or displaying the bones of their ancestors is disrespectful. Scientists contend that some older remains are evidence that other cultures inhabited the region.
May 19th, 2005 · Old bones are big business. In conditions that range from trying to perilous, fossil hunters cross the globe in search of mammoth tusks and trilobites. Collectors from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to Charlie Sheen compete to acquire the most appealing specimens. But it's not all adventure and intrigue: There's also an intense ideological battle over the ethics of selling a natural resource.
Mar 25th, 2005 · Practically every animal that gets around on two feet has bones to help it do the job. Now it turns out that, despite having no bones in their bodies, two octopus species have mastered bipedal locomotion by ambling along on two arms.
Mar 14th, 2005 · In the war in Iraq, no one is truly behind the front lines. A large number of women soldiers are among the wounded, suffering from burns and broken bones, lost limbs and disfiguring scars. We meet three such women at the Brooke Army Medical Center facility in San Antonio, Texas.